DS & BI Lead Connected Brewer

Immediate Superior:
Manager AI Development

Location:

Stellenboch, Western Cape
Function:
Digital&Technology
Sub Function:
Data Science Commerce
Type of

Contract:

Permanent
Reference Number: 164818
Closing Date: 30/09/2026

As a
DS-BILead within HEINEKEN’s D&A Product Organisation, you are responsible for leading the DS/BI Development / Advanced Analytics capabilities within the Smart Brewery ecosystem.

Embedded within the D&A Product, you work closely with Product Leads, Business Analysts, Data Engineers, and Developers to ensure the delivery of high-quality, scalable analytical products and advanced analytics solutions
. You act as the technical and capability lead for
BI Developers and Data Scientists
, guiding how data is transformed into actionable insights, robust dashboards, and advanced analytical models.

You play a key role in shaping standards, best practices, and ways of working across analytics and data science, ensuring consistency, scalability, and business value delivery at global scale.

A key part of your role is reinforcing Agile Ways of Working
, supporting squads with expertise, enabling high-quality delivery, and driving continuous improvement across these capabilities.

• Define and evolve the DA/BI Development and Data Science / Advanced Analytics capability vision within
• the D&A Product together with the D&A Product Owner and Product Leads
• Establish and promote
  best practices for data modelling, dashboarding, and advanced analytics.
• Drive standardisation and reuse of
  global analytical assets, KPIs, and models
  .
• Ensure alignment with the D&A roadmap and Smart Brewery vision.
• Identify opportunities to leverage
  advanced analytics and data science to unlock business value.

• Provide guidance on translating business and analytical needs into data models, KPIs, dashboards, and advanced analytical use cases
  .
• Support feasibility assessments for new use cases, including
  data availability, modelling complexity, and analytical approach
  .
• Collaborate with Product Leads and Business Analysts to shape a
  clear, prioritised analytical backlog
  .
• Bring structure and technical insight to complex analytical and data science challenges.

• Act as a key partner for Product Leads and stakeholders on analytics and data science topics
  .
• Translate complex analytical outputs into
  clear, actionable insights for business users.
• Facilitate alignment on KPIs, modelling logic, and analytical approaches across squads and regions.
• Act as the
  voice of DA/BI and Data Science
  , ensuring solutions deliver meaningful business value.

• Guide the design and development of scalable dashboards, semantic models, and analytical datasets (DA/BI domain).
• Ensure consistency in
  data modelling, KPI definitions, and visualisation standards across products.
• Drive adoption of
  advanced analytics techniques
  , including statistical analysis and machine learning.
• Collaborate with Data Engineers to address
  data quality, availability, and structural gaps
  .
• Promote reuse of analytical components to enable global scalability.

• Provide expert support and direction to squads during development and delivery.
• Ensure DA/BI and data science solutions meet
  quality, performance, and scalability standards
  .
• Support testing, validation, and monitoring of dashboards, datasets, and models.
• Ensure analytical products are delivering
  measurable business value across breweries.

• Support teams in breaking down DA/BI and data science work into clear, testable backlog items
  .
• Ensure analytical work meets the
  Definition of Ready before sprint commitment.
• Actively contribute to Agile ceremonies:
  • Sprint…